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incredulous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of incredulous

1 inclined to doubt or question claims
  • Incredulous by nature, I'm of course very suspicious of anyone who claims to be able to communicate with the dead.
Synonyms of incredulous

disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, mistrustful, questioning, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving
Words Related to incredulous

paranoid (also paranoidal)

critical, puzzled, quizzical

careful, cautious, guarded, gun-shy, leery (also leary), wary, watchful

cynical, experienced, knowing, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise

curious, inquiring, inquisitive, nosy (or nosey), snoopy

uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unsure

hesitant
Near Antonyms of incredulous

ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), simple, simpleminded, unknowing, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed

certain, confident, positive, sure

deceived, duped, gulled, tricked

careless, heedless, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary
Antonyms of incredulous

credulous, gullible (also gullable), trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning
2 too extraordinary or improbable to believe
  • an incredulous account of alien abduction that the tabloids had a field day with
Synonyms of incredulous

fantastic (also fantastical), implausible, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, uncompelling, unconceivable, unconvincing, unimaginable, unthinkable
Words Related to incredulous

debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, far-fetched, fishy, flimsy, questionable, shaky, suspect, suspicious, unlikely, unreasonable

hopeless, impossible

absurd, comical, farcical, laughable, ludicrous, outlandish, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, silly

indefensible, insupportable, untenable
Phrases Synonymous with incredulous

full of it
Near Antonyms of incredulous

likely, possible, probable

reasonable

certain, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable, questionless, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable
Antonyms of incredulous

believable, cogitable, conceivable, convincing, credible, creditable, imaginable, plausible, supposable, thinkable

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